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My ex-wife is a professional photographer. She does weddings, boudoir, and portraits mostly. Here's the thing. If she had say, 2 shoots in a week, maybe a tota
by dsnuh 9y ago
My ex-wife is a professional photographer. She does weddings, boudoir, and portraits mostly.
Here's the thing. If she had say, 2 shoots in a week, maybe a total of say 8 hours of shooting time, the selection, editing, and styling of those photos could take 3x or 4x as long as the time spent shooting. She would have to be editing constantly.
I've always thought a perfect application for this sort of technology would be a model trained on that particular photographer's style, which goes through a batch of photos and selects the best candidates and then presents the user with a few choices for each photo it selected and styled.
I think the ultimate would be a NAS with this capability embedded. The photographers I have met through her over the years seem savvy about photo tech, but don't generally use online storage solutions or know much more than how to admin a WP site at best. SOHO solution would be ideal imo.
Great work! I'm excited to see where this goes.
- eru 9y agoI don't think the NAS will come at all: the economics just don't work out. It's more likely this will hit consumers hands via an automatically applied 'enhancement' in Google Photos first.
- dsnuh 9y agoAn on-prem storage solution specifically targeting these features at professional photographers would sell. Storage is always a problem with every photographer I have met. They keep stacks of external USB drives or burn archives to DVD. They don't trust or want to use online storage. A package that provided these models, trainable on that photographer's particular style, with autocropping, watermarking, etc. would sell very well among this group.
- eru 9y agoI bet you could make millions. Or even tens of millions. Great for a start-up. But Google doesn't bother with such small fry---especially if it comes attached to a complicated hardware business model. At these small numbers, they are more likely to just give away access to the software for free.
- dsnuh 9y agoOh totally, this isn't something I would see Google doing, and I agree that Photos is definitely a more sensible place for this to start showing up for their consumers en masse. This would definitely a targeted startup type product. If you had a system to: - batch ingest new photos - stylize them to your own style - categorize them - autoselect candidate photos for final tweaking - back up final album photos to local storage and S3 - archive to Glacier the rest of the photos from the shoot that will likely never be touched again You would have a product that I think would be very attractive to professional and semi-professional photographers.